Torch Is Passed

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Today, in a marathon session of the Democratic Rules Committee, it was--for all the sturm und drang--a simple decision. Having violated the rules, the Florida and Michigan delegations will be seated with half-value votes.

There were impassioned arguments presented by representatives of the Florida and Michigan Democratic Parties, by advocates for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and at the end of the day a compromise was fashioned that likely fully pleased nobody. But such is the nature of civilized people getting together in diplomatic fashion to negotiate a plan that all sides could live with, if not like...or accept.

Oh, there is that threat by Icky Harold that Senator Clinton reserves the right to drag this out to the convention in Denver. And there were the unseemly reincarnations of the Republican pinstrip army from Florida 2000. Funny how those folks were so willing to fight then...where are they in volunteering for BushCo's war in Iraq?

But enough of Republicans... today the Clinton performance with its amen choristers loudly demanding their way didn't work.

And there is the uncertainty about the scorched earth pray for disaster to strike Obama campaign strategy of the Clinton folks--which seems to be the only strategy they have left. They botched the rest, all the way back to Iowa.

But rather than looking backward, let us look forward, for come what may, there will be a new Democratic leader now. A new generation of Americans going forward. A new way.

Today, the torch is passed. And there is the promise of tomorrow.